Currently we are offering "50% waiver" on "Article Processing Charges" for IJP. This offer will cease at any moment so please make use of it and submit articles. Kindly get confirmation of applicability of this offer through the code provided here and save it for the invoice correspondence.

Code: IJP-50W-OAP-W

All articles published in "International Journal of Pain Management" are Complete open access. We do not publish any hybrid articles. And all our articles are licensed under the single licence i.e., CC-By 4.0. This licence is the most flexible of it’s kind and adds power to your Open Access Article. No transfer of copyright is required by the author. Author retains the copyright.

☸ Why charge?

Since APC is the sole income source for OAP publishing house, hosting this journal, and we do not display any advertisements or receive any sponsorships from any of the organizations. And we do need to pay to other professional services we utilize in providing you the best service. From plagiarism checking to promoting the published article publication has various stages and requires funds for managing them. And in this fast paced digital world upgrades and maintaining up to the standards does incur additional charge, all of which are to be addressed through these charges we receive in the form of APC.

☸ Article Processing Charges

Article Processing Charges are to be paid upon acceptance of your manuscript. Since we solely depend on these charges and any other sources like advertising are not encouraged by us for maintaining the luxury of peaceful reading. Hence this is our basic sustenance for maintaining this journal as complete Open Access.

The charge levied for each manuscript of any type upon acceptance is $ 1200 USD. This is a flat charge and no other extra charges are applicable.

For APC related to publishing conference proceedings as a set of abstracts, contact us at ✉ [email protected]

FAQ on APC:

What is the disclosure and visibility policy of APC details?

Editors and reviewers have no access to these details, and hence an inability to pay will not influence the decision to publish a paper.

From when are these Prices valid and up to when?

These prices have been updated on Sep 09, 2018 and are valid up to the next announcement of price update which is generally Sep 09,2018. Manuscripts submitted prior to Sep 09, 2018 follow the previous APC. Only Submissions made on or after Sep 09, 2018 shall follow this renewed APC.

Why is Article Processing Charges (APC) collected?

Publishing process is definitely not free of cost, but in open access the research articles are available for free of charge. This implies that we need to incur some amount of fee to keep our process going. It’s the reason we collect open access charges which helps us to cover the processing expenses for various activities like review process handling, indexing, cross reference, manpower, technical team, communication support, basic office expenditure, etc.,. In spite of all our expenses we tend to keep our fee balanced both for our users and the publishing house. Also please note that this charge will be levied only for the accepted manuscripts, there are no submission charges

Is there any withdrawal charge?

Withdrawal charges are $150 USD. They are applicable if the paper has to be withdrawn after 5 days of submission. Kindly make note of this before you submit your manuscript. You may not submit elsewhere without official withdrawal of manuscript and it will be considered ethical misconduct if you do so and will be dealt accordingly.

☸ Refund Policy

Refund cannot be provided under any circumstance. Hence you need to make sure that double payment should not be made. In case of any such instances or any other instances we can only provide publication credit for publishing another article by reducing the already paid amount. Retractions do not attract any kind of refund.

☸ Require help to pay APC ?

❧Funding

Authors may cover their publishing charges using the funding provided by funding agencies, generally funds are allocated for this purpose. For funder compliance please check with your respective funding agencies and if you have any query for which you could not find information on our website please do contact us.

❧University reimbursement

If you do not have any funding for your work, your university may be willing to pay for you to publish in an open access journal. You need to contact the university office to verify if any such provision is available and make use of this reimbursement.

☸ Special Waivers**

❧Editors and Reviewers

Our editors and reviewers can avail a waiver of 10% on their corresponding APC, and if any other waivers are available at that time, they cannot be used in combination. Only the highest possible single waiver is applicable.

❧Authors

We provide special waivers for authors with financial difficulties by supporting them with partial waivers or complete waivers depending on the level of difficulty and upon publishers discretion. These waivers are limited per slot and are provided on first come first serve basis. Please apply only if you genuinely require this waiver, since it may help some other author who is really in need to utilize it.

❧Student waiver

If you are a student and lack funds, we allow a special charge of $300 USD flat for any type of publication. Hence students belonging to this category can utilize the special charge.

**Any waiver requests should be approved prior to submission. No waiver requests will be approved after submission.

☸ Member Institution

If your institution is a member of this journal, then you can avail a benefit of 15% waiver on your corresponding APC. There is no charge for an institutional membership. However we need an official declaration on the university letterhead from the appropriate authority for them to be listed as our members. Once this process is done authors belonging to that university are eligible for this waiver. Alternatively if your institution is willing to join us in a manner that all its authors can publish without any charges, we do have amicable plans for them. Please do contact us at ✉[email protected]

An email with the payment link along with instruction on how to pay will be forwarded and you just need to follow that link and complete the payment. If you did not receive the payment link then do contact us.